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BEIRUT - An American-led coalition airstrike in Syria hit an oil refinery run by Islamic State militants near the border with Turkey on Sunday, killing 30 people, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. Rami Abdul Rahman, director of the ...
US-led air strike on ISIS-run oil refinery in Syria kills 30: MonitorT
BEIRUT — An American-led coalition airstrike in Syria
hit an oil refinery run by Islamic State militants near the border with
Turkey on Sunday, killing 30 people, the Syrian Observatory for Human
Rights reported.
Rami
Abdul Rahman, director of the observatory, a monitoring group based in
Britain, said the dead were refinery workers and militants. The targeted
refinery was just northeast of the town of Tel Abyad near the Turkish
border, he said.
A
spokesman for the United States Combined Joint Task Force overseeing
the fight against the Islamic State said that when accusations of
civilian casualties caused by the coalition are deemed credible, a
thorough investigation begin.
The Islamic State has seized wide areas of Syria and Iraq, including oil-producing regions that have financed its activities.
In
November, the United Nations estimated the Islamic State’s revenue from
oil at $846,000 to $1.6 million a day. However, the Pentagon says oil
is no longer the group’s main source of revenue. Western diplomats have
said this was because of airstrikes on oil installations and a plunge in
global oil prices.
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